OT: Has anyone else read Valerio Massimo Manfredi's Alexander trilogy?

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Is the writing any better than the purple prose of The Last Legion?

That was a dire book.....

[QuintusSertorius]

A good fictionalisation (without any fantasy elements) of Xenophon's Anabasis is Michael Curtis Ford's The Ten Thousand. Told from the perspective of Xenophon's battle squire.

[Conan]

Ain't read The last Legion... but the film was pretty awful.

Michael Curtis Ford's The Ten Thousand... will be looking for that book :-)

I really did enjoy Manfredi's version of the The ten thousand especially his portrait of Menon.

[ziegenpeter]

I read Pressfields Gates of Fire about the battle at Themropylae and it was entertaining although I am in no position to make any judgments on hist. accuracy